Frag Out! Magazine

OUTDOOR GEAR and foremost – the fuel. Unfortunately, each time I have met with a windless weather, witho- ut precipitations and a temperature above zero degrees. So, maybe I will find at least for any "tactical" weather and the I will complete my observations. What is the best way to check out a stove per- formance if not during a cooking? By using a scale on the mug, I have filled it with 0.5 litre of water – each time I have taken it from the river, and its temperature has been less than 5°C. In my set there has been no lid for the mug (it can be bought separately), so from the assumption it has been known, that cooking will take longer time. All the elements of the set, due to the vicinity of the river, has had "reset" own temperature (after finishing the cooking I have cooled in the river), so each test has begun from the identical values. As a manufacturer boasts of the beautiful graphs of the fuel temperature and the bur- ning time dependency, but does not specify an amount of the needed, at the beginning one must try some tricky stuff since nobody likes to lose the fuel. A simple issue – you add it too much, put in the stove and it's finished, you do not get it back, in particular in the case of the gel fuel. Another case with a hexamine, gas or alcohol gel in the can which fuels we can "turn off" after boiling the water. At the bottom a stove has a profiled "tray" (a base?) for the fuel what significantly has facili- tated performing a test since it has enabled to use the same amount of the fuel each time. The gel has gone over the top first. The tray has been fulfilled to the brim, and even with a small convex meniscus – such an amount of the fuel has allowed to boil 0.5 litre of water in less than

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